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42 U.S.C. § 13981 — Transferred
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Section 13975 was editorially reclassified as [section 12351 of Title 34](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section12351&num=0&edition=prelim), Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 13975 was editorially reclassified as [section 12351 of Title 34](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section12351&num=0&edition=prelim), Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
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**(a) Purposes** The purposes of this section are—
(1) to identify, assess, and appropriately respond to child, youth, and adult victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking in rural communities, by encouraging collaboration among—
(A) domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking victim service providers;
(B) law enforcement agencies;
(C) prosecutors;
(D) courts;
(E) other criminal justice service providers;
(F) human and community service providers;
(G) educational institutions; and
(H) health care providers, including sexual assault forensic examiners;
(2) to establish and expand nonprofit, nongovernmental, State, tribal, territorial, and local government victim services in rural communities to child, youth, and adult victims;
(3) to increase the safety and well-being of women and children in rural communities, by—
(A) dealing directly and immediately with domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking occurring in rural communities; and
(B) creating and implementing strategies to increase awareness and prevent domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking; and
(4) to develop, expand, implement, and improve the quality of sexual assault forensic medical examination or sexual assault nurse examiner programs.
**(b) Grants authorized** The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women (referred to in this section as the “Director”), may award grants to States, Indian tribes, local governments, and nonprofit, public or private entities, including tribal nonprofit organizations, to carry out programs serving rural areas or rural communities that address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stal
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**(a) Purpose** Pursuant to the affirmative power of Congress to enact this part under section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, as well as under section 8 of Article I of the Constitution, it is the purpose of this part to protect the civil rights of victims of gender motivated violence and to promote public safety, health, and activities affecting interstate commerce by establishing a Federal civil rights cause of action for victims of crimes of violence motivated by gender.
**(b) Right to be free from crimes of violence** All persons within the United States shall have the right to be free from crimes of violence motivated by gender (as defined in subsection (d)).
**(c) Cause of action** A person (including a person who acts under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State) who commits a crime of violence motivated by gender and thus deprives another of the right declared in subsection (b) shall be liable to the party injured, in an action for the recovery of compensatory and punitive damages, injunctive and declaratory relief, and such other relief as a court may deem appropriate.
**(d) Definitions** For purposes of this section—
(1) the term “crime of violence motivated by gender” means a crime of violence committed because of gender or on the basis of gender, and due, at least in part, to an animus based on the victim’s gender; and
(2) the term “crime of violence” means— 11 So in original. The word “means” probably should appear after “(A)” below.
(A) an act or series of acts that would constitute a felony against the person or that would constitute a felony against property if the conduct presents a serious risk of physical injury to another, and that would come within the meaning of State or Federal offens
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**(a) Applicability of statutory and common law** The jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters conferred on the district courts by the provisions of titles 13, 24, and 70 of the Revised Statutes for the protection of all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and for their vindication, shall be exercised and enforced in conformity with the laws of the United States, so far as such laws are suitable to carry the same into effect; but in all cases where they are not adapted to the object, or are deficient in the provisions necessary to furnish suitable remedies and punish offenses against law, the common law, as modified and changed by the constitution and statutes of the State wherein the court having jurisdiction of such civil or criminal cause is held, so far as the same is not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, shall be extended to and govern the said courts in the trial and disposition of the cause, and, if it is of a criminal nature, in the infliction of punishment on the party found guilty.
**(b) Attorney’s fees** In any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of sections 1981, 1981a, 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1986 of this title, title IX of Public Law 92–318 [[20 U.S.C. 1681](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1681&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 [[42 U.S.C. 2000bb](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2000bb&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 [[42 U.S.C. 2000cc](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2000cc&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [[42 U.S.C. 2000d
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 14001
SUBPART 2—DATA AND RESEARCH
§ 13961. Transferred
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section 13961 was editorially reclassified as section
12331 of Title 34, Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH AGENDA IDENTIFIED BY
THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT OF 1994
Pub. L. 106–386, div. B, title IV, § 1404, Oct. 28, 2000, 114
Stat. 1514, required the Attorney General to direct the
National Institute of Justice, in consultation and co-
ordination with the Bureau of Justice Statistics and
the National Academy of Sciences, through its Na-
tional Research Council, to develop a research agenda
based on the recommendations contained in the report
entitled ‘‘Understanding Violence Against Women’’ of
the National Academy of Sciences and, in consultation
with the Secretary of the Department of Health and
Human Services, to submit a report to Congress not
later than Oct. 28, 2000, which was to include a descrip-
tion of the research agenda, a plan to implement the
agenda, and recommendations for priorities in carrying
out the agenda to most effectively advance knowledge
about and means by which to prevent or reduce vio-
lence against women.
§ 13962. Transferred
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section 13962 was editorially reclassified as section
12332 of Title 34, Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
§ 13963. Transferred
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section 13963 was editorially reclassified as section
12333 of Title 34, Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
SUBPART 3—RURAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND
CHILD ABUSE ENFORCEMENT
§ 13971. Transferred
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section 13971 was editorially reclassified as section
12341 of Title 34, Crime Control and
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